Aldo Leopold Film Festival to be Held at WNMU in September
Mimbres / Silver City, New Mexico

Aldo Leopold

The public is invited to attend a free film festival hosted by the Gila National Forest, National Park Service, Western New Mexico University, and the Western National Parks Association in recognition of the centennial celebration of Aldo Leopold’s beginning his work in the Southwest with the U.S. Forest Service. The film showing is scheduled for the evenings of September 25 and 26 at the WNMU Global Resource Auditorium Center.

Aldo Leopold, a passionate outdoorsman, was a leader on environmental ethics, wilderness and wildlife preservation and became instrumental in the designation of the Gila Wilderness as the nation’s first designated wilderness area in 1924.

Films scheduled to be shown:

Friday, September 25 at 7 p.m.

The National Park Service will show a one hour sneak-preview of Ken Burns’ new six-part documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The documentary series which debuts on PBS stations nationwide on September 27th recounts the story of the National Park Service system. The idea for the Park Service is uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not just for royalty or the rich, but for everyone.

Saturday, September 26 at 6 p.m.

The USDA Forest Service will show Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators a documentary about predators which features Aldo Leopold and a preview of the new film The Green Fire.
Admission is free for both showings.

Further information may be obtained by contacting the Wilderness Ranger District at (575)536-2250 or Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument at (575) 536-9461.